Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 28 89
Rank change year-on-year +3 +61 +30
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 187 128 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.19% 7.13% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.25% 7.57% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 99 25
10th Percentile £400 £412 £355
25th Percentile £480 £460 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -17.31%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £763 £777 £745
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.63% -17.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,021 1,690 1,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.52% 94.20% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,115 1,242
10th Percentile £368 £325 £388
25th Percentile £456 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -14.80%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £29.07 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.00% -11.91% +5.60%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +2 1 £550 -24.14%
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.81%) Confluence
1 9 (4.81%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.28%) Apache
2 8 (4.28%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.07%) SAS
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.07%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.53%) Maximo
3 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (28.34%) Azure
2 28 (14.97%) AWS
2 28 (14.97%) Power Platform
3 13 (6.95%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.35%) GCP
5 9 (4.81%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Copilot
6 8 (4.28%) SaaS
7 6 (3.21%) dbt
7 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (3.21%) Serverless
8 5 (2.67%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.14%) GitHub
9 4 (2.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) Network Security
2 2 (1.07%) DNS
2 2 (1.07%) LAN
2 2 (1.07%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.07%) VPN
2 2 (1.07%) WAN
2 2 (1.07%) Wireless
3 1 (0.53%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.53%) Firewall
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.53%) PSTN
3 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.53%) VLAN
3 1 (0.53%) VoIP
3 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.37%) Power BI
2 19 (10.16%) Metadata
3 12 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.35%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.14%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.14%) Tableau
6 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.60%) Data Vault
6 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.60%) Power Query
7 2 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.07%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.07%) Looker
7 2 (1.07%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.07%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (8.56%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) GitLab
3 2 (1.07%) Git
3 2 (1.07%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.53%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.53%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) JUnit
4 1 (0.53%) MLflow
4 1 (0.53%) Mockito
4 1 (0.53%) MSI
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 78 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 71 (37.97%) Finance
3 35 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (16.58%) Banking
5 29 (15.51%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.49%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.28%) Retail
8 7 (3.74%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.67%) Marketing
11 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.14%) Front Office
11 4 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.60%) Police
13 2 (1.07%) International Banking
13 2 (1.07%) Local Government
13 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (19.25%) Architect
2 26 (13.90%) Analyst
3 25 (13.37%) Lead
4 22 (11.76%) Senior
5 20 (10.70%) Data Architect
6 17 (9.09%) Project Manager
7 14 (7.49%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.88%) Consultant
9 10 (5.35%) Developer
10 8 (4.28%) Data Analyst
11 6 (3.21%) Change Manager
11 6 (3.21%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Security Architect
11 6 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
12 5 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.67%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.67%) Strategy Architect
13 4 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
13 4 (2.14%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.95%) PySpark
2 9 (4.81%) Terraform
3 5 (2.67%) REST
4 4 (2.14%) XML
5 3 (1.60%) FastAPI
5 3 (1.60%) JSON
5 3 (1.60%) Kafka
5 3 (1.60%) Middleware
5 3 (1.60%) Spring
5 3 (1.60%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.07%) .NET
6 2 (1.07%) Flask
6 2 (1.07%) React
6 2 (1.07%) RESTful
6 2 (1.07%) SOAP
7 1 (0.53%) EDI
7 1 (0.53%) OpenID
7 1 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.53%) SAML
7 1 (0.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.95%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.81%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.74%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.74%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.60%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.07%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.07%) FMCG
6 2 (1.07%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.53%) CSOC
7 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.60%) Linux
1 3 (1.60%) Unix
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (37.97%) Stakeholder Management
2 52 (27.81%) Agile
3 41 (21.93%) Decision-Making
4 38 (20.32%) Analytics
5 34 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (18.18%) Data Governance
6 33 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 32 (17.11%) Data Modelling
8 31 (16.58%) AI
8 31 (16.58%) Migration
9 28 (14.97%) DevOps
10 25 (13.37%) CI/CD
11 23 (12.30%) Data Architecture
12 19 (10.16%) Change Management
12 19 (10.16%) Data Engineering
12 19 (10.16%) Project Management
13 18 (9.63%) Data Transformation
13 18 (9.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.58%) SQL
2 21 (11.23%) Python
3 7 (3.74%) Bicep
3 7 (3.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.14%) Java
5 2 (1.07%) C#
5 2 (1.07%) LookML
5 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.53%) Scala
6 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.88%) Degree
4 7 (3.74%) PMP
5 5 (2.67%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.67%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.07%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.07%) OSCP
9 1 (0.53%) APMG
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) GPEN
9 1 (0.53%) IIBA
9 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.11%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.35%) PMO
3 9 (4.81%) GDPR
4 8 (4.28%) QA
5 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.74%) NIST
6 6 (3.21%) NCSC
7 4 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.07%) GRC
9 2 (1.07%) ISO 20022
9 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (1.07%) PERC
10 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.53%) SEPA
10 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (3.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.07%) Istio
4 1 (0.53%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (25.13%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.83%) Databricks
3 14 (7.49%) SAP
4 6 (3.21%) Google
4 6 (3.21%) Oracle
4 6 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.14%) Informatica
5 4 (2.14%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.60%) Remedy
7 2 (1.07%) BMC
7 2 (1.07%) Cisco
7 2 (1.07%) IBM
7 2 (1.07%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.07%) Teradata
7 2 (1.07%) VMware
7 2 (1.07%) Workday
8 1 (0.53%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.53%) IFS
8 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto